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Cannes 2025: Impressive Thriller ‘The Plague’ from Charlie Polinger

by Alex Billington
May 24, 2025

A fresh new debut from a filmmaker who has real talent. One of the best first films at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is titled The Plague, an American indie thriller made by filmmaker Charlie Polinger. During the intro at its world premiere, actor Joel Edgerton (who also runs his own production company called Blue-Tongue Films – though they’re not involved in this film) stated that he’d already seen few of Polinger’s short films before reading the script for this & couldn’t wait for him to finally make his mark with his first feature. That moment is here and, yes, he has definitely made his mark. Even after watching many other films over the course of the festival, this one still stands out, it still lingers in my mind and the score still haunts me. Even if the story about bullying is a bit obvious, and even if it never dips into any full-on horror despite the feeling often that it might do so, it is still an impressive debut with top notch filmmaking across the board. The Plague plunges viewers into the chilling realm of kids picking on other kids and it’s proper freaky stuff.

Written & directed by Charlie Polinger, The Plague is set in the early 2000s and tells the story of a group of kids at a water polo summer camp. I know these sports camps as I went to a few when I was growing up & they were always awkward experiences for me, too. A bunch of feisty, young, bored kids thrown together for a week (without any parents). Newcomer Everett Blunck stars as a scrawny kid named Ben, who tries to gain the camaraderie of the other group of kids that already know each other. Kenny Rasmussen co-stars as Eli, a weird boy who has some skin problems that appear as rashes on his body. The other kids think this is some scary disease they dub “The Plague” and act as if it’s horrible, always making fun of him, constantly picking on him, not going near him. But Eli doesn’t seem to care and just does whatever he wants to do his own way, even if they keep bullying him. Kayo Martin also co-stars as Jake, the bullying ringleader who is always the one finding something to pick on with any kid. The performances from Everett Blunck and Kayo Martin are some of the best young performances I’ve seen in quite a while. They’re not only convincing but also challenging, diving into a disquieting dynamic that is necessary for this story to work as well as it does.

Aside from the kids being legit in their roles (and Joel Edgerton as their coach), this is proper filmmaking firing on all cylinders. There’s some incredibly unique cinematography by DP Steven Breckon, framing the pool and the buildings and every shot in a way that is instantly peculiar or unsettling yet also entrancing. This guy has an eye, that’s for sure, and I’m glad he teamed up with Polinger. The score rules – it’s a stirring horror score built around “aaah” and “oooh” vocals sampled into percussive music. The singer / composer Johan Lenox is the inventive musician behind this score and he deserves extra attention for creating this especially freaky score. Still thinking about it all the time… It’s part of what makes this movie so chilling to watch, keeping viewers on the edge of their seat even if it’s not actually horror. Ultimately the story is less about bullying and more about being yourself, not letting any peer pressure or conformity get to you. Not an easy task, especially when you’re a kid growing up who wants to be seen as cool and accepted in the group. It’s a helluva good film that’s entirely original and gripping – Polinger instantly proving he’s got the chops.

Alex’s Cannes 2025 Rating: 8 out of 10
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GENEVA, Ohio – Junior Kevin Turlington of the St. Olaf College men’s track and field team finished his season with Second Team All-America honors and an 11th-place finish in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday afternoon at the SPIRE Institute.

After finishing 11th nationally in the event earlier this year, Turlington replicated the feat in his first national outdoor meet by clocking in at 14:23.51 to earn his second Second Team All-America accolade of the year. The junior’s 11th-place performance was the highest national finish for an Ole in the event since 1987 and the second-highest in recorded program history.

Turlington was 14th in the field of 22 runners midway through the race before moving up to ninth – one spot outside of the First Team All-America spots – with one lap to go but settled for 11th place. Turlington entered the meet as the No. 21 seed in the event but used his freshness to finish 10 spots higher after 12 of the other 21 runners competed in either the 10,000-meter run or 3,000-meter steeplechase earlier in the meet.

In his junior season, Turlington earned an All-America accolade in each of his three seasons of competition, as he was 23rd nationally in cross country in the fall. St. Olaf finished ended the national meet with no team points, although both of its qualifiers came away with Second Team All-America honors after junior Ignatius Fitzgerald was ninth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Friday.

 

GENEVA, OHIO (May 24, 2025) – The Tufts University women’s track and field team wrapped up their season with a solid showing on day three of the 2025 NCAA Division III Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Senior Jordan Andrew and first year Elysse Cumberland set the ball rolling on day three in the triple jump. Cumberland bowed out of the competition in 13th place after an 11.85m jump. Andrew stepped up and landed a jump of 11.93m on her first recorded mark before improving to 12.08m on her third attempt. The veteran jumper hovered around the 11.90m area before finally breaking it open on her final attempt. The senior matched her personal best on the final jump of her season, landing a mark of 12.29m to take fourth place. It would be the best finish for the Jumbos on day three.

First year Arielle Chechile took ninth place in the 400m hurdles finals to end the day after an unfortunate disqualification.

The Jumbos end their season with two top five finishes at the 2025 NCAA Division III Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

–JUMBOS–

The Rhode Island high school boys volleyball playoffs have arrived.

GENEVA, Ohio— The Wartburg men’s outdoor track and field team tied for 26^th place with nine points at the National Championships

Saturday’s events:

110m hurdle finals                    Deyton Love                  6^th                         14.63

5K                             Lance Sobaski                            13^th       14:27.14

                                 Tyler Schermerhorn                  17^th       14:33.08

4x400m relay final                                    8^th          3:12.34             (Ian Neyens, Ben Roussel, Hutton Edney, Jensen Clapp)

Men’s pole vault          Carson Collet               NH

Notes:

• This was Love’s fourth career All-American honor in this event
• This was the program’s sixth total All-American honor in the 110 hurdles
• The 4×4 time now stands seventh best on the program’s top 10 list
• This was the first All-American finish in the 4×4 since 2021
• This was the 12^th outdoor All-American finish in the 4×4 for the program
• This was Sobaski’s first career All-American honor in the 5K